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Title/Link: The Tribulations and Tranquility of Travel by MetamorphmagusLupin Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; Alternate UniverseSummary: AU. There are many joys in fatherhood. There are equally as many horrors. On a trip to the seaside, Zoe Snape makes certain that Severus experiences both. A continuation of my Severus and Zoe series, taking place two years after The Power of Words.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Out of Reach by Canis MajorRating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; NoneSummary: His mum's a witch and his dad's a wizard, but Phoenix isn't going to Hogwarts.
His parents have other plans, and they know their rights much better than Vernon Dursley ever did. It all makes perfect sense to them -- but not to their unhappy eleven-year-old son. The magical education authorities might have an opinion, too, if anyone were asking them. Or is it just that no-one is listening?Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: The Ghosts That Follow by Nagini RiddleRating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; Abuse, Alternate Universe, Mental DisordersSummary: Haunted memories are as the ghosts that follow...

Merope's life takes a different path when she meets Abraxas Malfoy, a rich young man who promises to help her out of her situation. But when she arrives at the designated place to meet, he isn't there, and all she can see is a ghastly green potion beckoning her to step forward and drink.

Consuming the potion leads her into another world, where marbled structures speak in Delphic tongues, forests hold the mind prisoner, and poisonous bugs stalk their victims.

But that isn't all. She comes to the realization that perhaps memories and experiences are naught but deceitful apparitions meant to drag her soul down into endless misery. It is then that she must make a decision - give in or simply give up.

This is Nagini Riddle of Gryffindor, writing for Round 9 of the Gauntlet.Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: The Art of Acceptance by goldensnidget92 Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; NoneSummary: Colin Creevey sees acceptance as an art form. It disguises his loneliness, his insecurities and his conviction that he does not fit in.

Luna Lovegood has never been accepted, but remains perhaps the most content person Colin has ever met. As his feelings for her develop throughout their years at Hogwarts, Colin must prepare to renounce the acceptance of his friends; instead learning to accept her and, ultimately, himself.Points Remaining: 0

Title/Link: Wit Beyond Measure by Samisjay Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; NoneSummary: Everyone knows the story of Harry's time at Hogwarts . . . but what was it like for the other students? Many other stories unfolded during those years . . . this is one of them.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Relativity by Padfoot11333 Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; Character DeathSummary: Failure: fail•ure: a fracturing or giving way under stress, a falling short.
Hermione has faced a boggart before. The problem is, she didn't succeed.
This is Padfoot11333 of Hufflepuff writing for the Great Hall Mini-Challenge: The Boggart Challenge.
IT WONNN--alongside Gmariam's Afraid of the Dark. I am shocked Points Remaining: 2

Title/Link: In Pursuit of Greatness by PoeticallyIrritating Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th years; Mild Profanity, Sexual Situations, ViolenceSummary: This is Bellatrix Black as a student, a wife, and a faithful servant. A child and a prisoner. She is exactly who you think she is, and much more.Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: This is it, Boy, This is War by silverlining95 Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th years; Mental Disorders, Self Injury, Sexual Situations, Strong Profanity, ViolenceSummary: 'This is it, boys, this is war... what are we waiting for?
Why don't we break the rules already?'

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As Michael Corner enters his seventh year at Hogwarts, he knows the world around him is changing, and not for the better. He also knows that when the time comes he will fight, but until then the most important thing is keeping himself and those who mean the most to him alive.

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'Funny, isn't it, how for a Ravenclaw you're awfully fond of self-preservation.'
'I prefer to think of it as using my head rather than relying on a foolhardy sense of bravery.'

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A companion piece to The Fire I Yearn For. It's not strictly necessary to read that first, though it may help you understand the events that unfold.Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: The Art of Communication by MetamorphmagusLupin Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; Alternate UniverseSummary: AU. Four years after Severus Snape's life changed very much for the better, he has a very interesting conversation with his daughter. One shot. A glimpse into my Severus and Zoe series. Zoe's mine, everything else belongs to JK Rowling.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Introductions by MetamorphmagusLupin Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; Alternate UniverseSummary: AU. The war is over and life continues on. But things are unlikely to be quiet and uncomplicated in the life of Severus Snape, for incredible changes often come about when one is least expecting them.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Tales From Howling Hall by Racing Co Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; ViolenceSummary: Fellow Healers despised Damocles Belby for his arrogance and admitted genius, but none ever envied him. Assigned to St. Mungo's little-known ward for treating werewolves, Belby faces death and failure each time the full moon rises. Who is more cursed? The werewolves or the man charged with curing them?Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: The Testing Point by minnabird Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; Mild Profanity Summary: Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. -C.S. Lewis
June Bagnold comes from a family very focused on success at the Ministry, but she's not so sure she'll be able to fulfill her father's wishes for her, especially with her near-crippling shyness. But she's a seventh year now, and she must face NEWTs and the beginning of life after Hogwarts.
This is minnabird of Hufflepuff writing for Round Three of the 2012 Character Triathlon - Fairy Tale PromptPoints Remaining: 4

Title/Link: In Silence by deryn_hermione Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd; NoneSummary: During her Sixth Year at Hogwarts, Luna Lovegood is captured by Death Eaters as she rides the Hogwarts Express home for Christmas. What on earth was going through her head during this harrowing experience?Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: The Boy With Dragon Pox by PhoenixFire9605 Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; NoneSummary: A young Muggle is in hospital and the doctors are looking for a blood donor from a close relative. Harry has a plan to help. Pre Epilogue.Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: Rita Skeeter: Exposed by expelliarmus17 Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th; Mild ProfanitySummary: "Attractive blonde Rita Skeeter, forty-three, whose savage quill has punctured many inflated reputations..." She's back, and she's not what you'd expect. This is the other side of Rita Skeeter, something she'd never want published. Rita works to whip up a story about recent Azkaban escapee, Sirius Black, but something stands in her way...Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: Red Currant Rum by Eleanor Lupin Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd; Mild Profanity, Substance AbuseSummary: Rosmerta Church has never really enjoyed Christmas since she was seventeen. In fact, it has always depressed her - there was just so much for her to miss. But one Christmas day, a recovering alcoholic visits Rosmerta's pub and gives her a bit of hope.
This is Eleanor Lupin of Hufflepuff writing for Round Two of the 2012 Character Triathlon.Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: Family First by majestic_ginny Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; Abuse, Sexual Situations, ViolenceSummary: When Andromeda Black joined Hogwarts, all she wanted to do was please her family. But as the years passed, she wasn't sure whether what they had been teaching her was right.

This is majestic_ginny of Hufflepuff writing for Round 2 of the Character Clinic Triathlon - Minor Characters. I chose the Parent prompt.Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: Redeeming the Past by FearlessFlyer Rating/Warnings: Professors; Abuse, Alternate Universe, Book 7 Disregarded, Epilogue? What Epilogue?, Non-Consensual Sex, Strong Profanity, ViolenceSummary: The past: some cling to it, others deny it; some learn from its lessons, while others are locked in the cycle of their mistakes. How far would a man be willing to go to move beyond his past and ensure that it will not define him? Severus Snape is about to learn.Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: Alchemy by Writ Encore Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; Character Death, Mild Profanity, ViolenceSummary: Nicolas Flamel shares his gift with a few talented students and forges an unbreakable friendship.

For Ruth, with love.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Cherry and Chocolate by AidaLuthien Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; NoneSummary: On a trip to Diagon Alley, Severus Snape remembers the first time he visited the wizarding enclave - with Lily Evans.

Thank you to Broken Promise for betaing!

This is AidaLuthien of Hufflepuff writing for Round One of Madam Pomfrey's One Shot Character Clinic.Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: Hear the Moonlight Sing by goldensnidget92 Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; NoneSummary: It wasn't love, exactly. But it was a little bit more than friendship. Twelve-year-old Luna needed Archie to remind herself of what she believed in. Archie needed Luna to save him.
This isn't a story about first love. But it is a story about childhood, and making the decision to leave it.Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: Taken by AidaLuthien Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; NoneSummary: Luna's trip back to Hogwarts is interrupted by Death Eaters on the train.

This is AidaLuthien of Hufflepuff writing for Round One of the 2012 Character Triathlon.Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: The Letter by moebear Rating/Warnings: Professors; NoneSummary: My sisters were the beautiful ones, the ones with the world open to them, and I was the one who climbed trees and didn’t pay attention when they scratched me until I was covered in blood and it was already too late. The trees had given me a bit of their sap to staunch the flow, and in doing so had turned me into a wild thing, something that should have been free, but was caged forever, tied down by life.Points Remaining: 6

Title/Link: Waiting For Morning by Writ Encore Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; Character Death, Mild Profanity, Sexual Situations, ViolenceSummary: Elphinstone Urquart doesn't listen to sense, or rejection, because he's seeking an answer. One that sounds good to his ears.

Dedication: For Etsuko, my Japanese spirit.
For Ruth, James’s Ruthie, who taught me to read.
And, to the old man who just left us, James, who introduced me to Ernest Hemingway and said I belong with the girls in the Roaring Twenties. I walked the wrong road.
And, lastly, to my friend, Akay (padfootpatronus), who has held my hand through all of it. I love you all and miss you all.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: They Brought the Great Alastor Moody to his Knees by The Last MarauderRating/Warnings: 3rd-5th; Mild Profanity, ViolenceSummary: Alastor Moody’s house was impenetrable. The door had ten locks on it, each requiring a complex spell to open. All his windows had been reinforced with all the security spells in existence. At least two Sneakoscopes were perched in each room. He had taken every precaution. He had added every security measure under the sun. He had thought of every possible entry point and fortified all weak areas. No one could get inside, no one, but they did. They did.Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: Hard-Faced by Lollylovesick Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th years; Sexual Situations, Strong Profanity, SuicideSummary: All that matters is the face you show to the world.
Hard-faced, but in love.
What’s a girl to do?
This is LollyLovesick of Hufflepuff submitting my entry for Rosmerta's Mini-Gauntlet being held in The Three Broomsticks over at the MNFF beta boards.
Nominated for Best General Story in the 2012 Quicksilver Quills. Thank you!Points Remaining: 0

Title/Link: Mortal Thoughts by noblefate Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; Character DeathSummary: Dumbledore's dead, and Tonks has just said she loves him, but Remus is still too afraid to go after what he wants. Here's hoping Molly Weasley can get him to take matters into his own hands.Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: Sticking Together by iLuna17 Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; Abuse, Mild ProfanitySummary: During the reign of the Carrows, Dumbledore's Army fought against them. The D.A. also had each others' backs, no matter what happened. But it wasn't always that way. It took a fourth-year, a little black book, and a plan the size of Hogwarts itself to make the D.A. realize their only chance of survival lied with each other.

This is iMusic17 of Slytherin writing for the Outstanding OWL's prompt in the School of Mischief Challenge in the Great Hall. Points Remaining: 2

Title/Link: What it Takes to be a Black by PInk_Witch Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; NoneSummary: Three sisters. One Dark Lord. This story is about how the choices they made affected who they turned out to be.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Bloodshot Eyes by MistReaderRating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; Character DeathSummary: Theador Mist is assigned to a dangerous task that could change his life forever. It is only a matter of time when the truth about whether he can survive it hits him hard.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Storm and Stress by Merlynne Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th years; Character Death, Sexual Situations, Suicide, ViolenceSummary: Meleia Varias, a fourth year student at Durmstrang Institute knows that reason often has little to do with anything in life, and justice is an abstract concept. Under Headmaster Karkaroff’s watchful eye, Meleia explores the frightening implications of her past as she works to un-fog the future in a world that refuses to be made sense of.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The List by panther_mlb Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; Alternate Universe, Character Death, Mild ProfanitySummary: This is the life story of Bellatrix Lestrange, based upon the theme from Wicked, that villians are not born villians, but made villians.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: White Jade by AidaLuthien Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; NoneSummary: The youngest prince of China prepares to leave the capital to go to the Dragon Pearl.

This is AidaLuthien of Hufflepuff House's final for the Charming Characters class.Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: A Primrose in Bloom by Cinderella Angelina Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; NoneSummary: Primrose Dobbs is fairly happy, until someone reenters her life unexpectedly. Then she's ... still happy. Mostly. It would help if Fleur Delacour wasn't in the picture.

Cinderella Angelina of Hufflepuff checking in with my final exam for the Charming Characters class!Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: After the Storm by solemnlyswear_x Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; NoneSummary: The murder of a former Hogwarts student at Christmastime leaves Andromeda Black reconsidering all she's known.

This is solemnlyswear_x of Gryffindor, writing for The Great Hall-iday Challenge 2011 (Prompt 2).Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Shifting Perspectives by TheUniverseWillSing Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; Alternate Universe, Mental Disorders, Mild ProfanitySummary: A brief look at Hermione's struggles with her estrangement during PoA, and also answering the question of what might have happened if she'd still been holding onto Scabbers when Sirius "attacked"?Points Remaining: 7

Title/Link: Sanctuary by Writ Encore Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; Character Death, Mental Disorders, Mild ProfanitySummary: Hippocrates works through the holidays and helps a patient piece his life together after an attack.

This is Kuri of Ravenclaw, writing for the Great Hall-iday Challenge 2011.

Betas: maple_and_phoenixfeather and AlexPoints Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Healing Hours by tot_desidero Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th years; Strong ProfanitySummary: In the hours after Voldemort's defeat four people begin their journey towards living a peaceful life. The pain, grief and heartache can only be healed with time and with the patience of the ones they love.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Ambition’s Downfall by goldensnidget92 Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; NoneSummary: Draco Malfoy's sixth year at Hogwarts is as infamous as Dolores Umbridge's detentions, but what really motivated him to attempt to kill the great Albus Dumbledore?

After his father's imprisonment in Azkaban, Draco is left feeling humiliated and alone. Coming from a family where reputation means everything, he jumps at the chance to prove himself to the Dark Lord; but will he be able to go through with the momentous task of murdering the greatest wizard known to man, or will he learn to value just how precious life can be?Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Best Team in East Anglia by minnabird Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; Mild ProfanitySummary: Every year, the best amateur Quidditch team in Suffolk faces off against the best team in Norfolk in the East Anglia Summer Tournament. Isobel Jones, one of exactly seven young witches and wizards in the tiny town of Eleigh St. Mary in Suffolk, decides that not only is she going to form a team for the tournament, her team is going to win it.
The problem? Well, let's see. One of her seven possible players is an utter klutz at Quidditch. Two others are often too busy with their school Quidditch teams to practice hard during the school year. And then there's just the little matter of getting to the finals, facing up against a team that's won two years running and isn't afraid to play dirty, and getting her team through the game unscathed...
"We'll win," she says. "We're going to prove that we’re the best team in East Anglia.”
People scoff. But her team believes - and that's all that really matters.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Controlling the Rebound by hallows_vs_horcruxes Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years; Mild ProfanitySummary: After the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry Potter, with the help of his friends, must face down the revolting Death Eaters who managed to stay in hiding. Along with learning about new magic and discovering skills they didn't know they had, he and his supporters must find way to keep peace in the Wizarding World. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Fool’s Gold by Writ Encore Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; Character Death, Mild ProfanitySummary: Nicolas Flamel takes on an apprentice and sparks a friendship.
I'd like to thank Abi, crazy717, for her help with this one.
Scribed and Translated by their grandson, Auguste, in his grandparents’ loving memory.Points Remaining: 6

Title/Link: Obliviate by maddieblog Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd years; Alternate UniverseSummary: They all know who he is, what he's done. They have no idea there was another side to the story. This is that side.Points Remaining: 8

Mystery

Title/Link:Murder in the Moonlight by Nagini Riddle Ratings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/ Character deathSummary: He's leaving.
She wants him to stay.
And so begins a murder investigation that leaves the Muggle police baffled and the Aurors with a mess to clean up. And what happens when the murderer strikes again?Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:A Touch of Ice by majestic_ginny Ratings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Mild Profanity, Character death, Substance Abuse, ViolenceSummary: Aurors Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter are in charge of the Kenneth Lee murder case. Smart, funny and friendly, Kenny had no enemies. There was no motive for murdering him. Then why was he found dead late at night with a severe blow to his head? The only clues are the missing ring, a cigarette stub and lots of water and blood...
As the two Aurors start investigating, they find a lot of startling pieces of evidence... and not everyone being questioned is telling the truth.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Woman of Secrets by Fynnsmom Ratings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/NoneSummary: This is Fynnsmom of Ravenclaw House writing for the 2011 Mysterious May Challenge in the Great Hall, Prompt #1.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:The Perfect Alibi by Russia Snow Ratings/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/Alternate UniverseSummary: Recently, Muggles have noticed that small things are going missing. But these small things are getting bigger.
Something valuable has gone missing at Hogwarts. The teachers are somehow involved and no one seems to know the full story. Can Nina and Cleo figure out the answer before it's too late?Points remaining: 8

Poetry

Title/Link: Rattlebag by Equinox ChickRating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: Summary: What is Gellert Grindelwald. A young man with so many sides.

This poem was written for The Sharp Challenge in Poetry, Anyone? Thank you Julia, for running such fab challenges and being an inspiration.

Disclaimer: JKR? Me? Noooooooooo.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Winter of 1539-1540 by hestiajones Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: Immortality comes with a quiet price.

Written for Random Song Title Challenge at Poetry Anyone (?). This poem shares the title of the Helios song, and only the title.Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: Falling by GinnyPotter95 Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years, character deathSummary: Sirius's last thoughts as he falls through the veil.Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: Unite the Balance by crbluvsravenclaw Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: There's a time when friends bid their fairwells and another when they must re-unite to keep the world in balance.Points Remaining: 4

Nominated for Best Poem in the 2012 Quicksilver Quill AwardsPoints Remaining: 4

Title/Link: The Current by minnabirdRating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years, sexual situations, slashSummary: They are adrift in a warm sea, a seething ocean of sensation. Fleur/Hermione.
Nominated for Best Poem in the 2012 Quicksilver Quill AwardsPoints Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Free Hippogriff by SkarlettRating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: A young woman finds inspiration in the flight of a lone Hippogriff...Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Day We Forget by Sly SeverusRating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years, violenceSummary: The war is over, but going on with life is another war in itself.Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: The End of Days by Envy_I_May_BeRating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: This one was inspired by Lily's Theme from the Deathly Hallows Part 2 soundtrack, which I have been listening to on repeat for days. It's about Petuina reflecting on her feelings about Lily after she learns of her death.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Burning in the Skies by Envy_I_May_BeRating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: I used the dead wood to make the fire rise; the blood of innocence burning in the skies... A poem about my favorite subject for angsty poetry, Draco Malfoy.

Title/Link: Crimson Streak by foreverandalways14 Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: A free-versed poem dedicated to the Final Battle that took place within Hogwarts.Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: Magic Beyond the Seams by christyvourcos Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: This is a poem I wrote originally to describe my experience at Universal's Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, Florida during Infinitus 2010. Through my creative writing course in college (for my English major), I received some comments about it and made the poem towards my experience of the series & the fandom. As soon as I registered for Alohomora, I noticed there was a section for submissions and my first thought was to share this poem.Points Remaining: 8

Written for the Random Song Title challenge at Poetry Anyone (?). 2 Trees is a song by Foals, and it has nothing to do with the poem apart from the title. I am not J.K.Rowling.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Runaway Kite by Padfoot11333Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: Who is Petunia Dursley?

This was my favourite of the entries that I submitted to The Sharp Challenge in Poetry, Anyone? on the beta boards.

Nominated for a 2012 Quicksilver Quill.Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: Forever by Padfoot11333Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: A short poem about Fleur finding Bill after his werewolf bites.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: And Death Did Come by phoenix_song197 Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: Three brothers sought to escape death. But Death did come. One way or another, Death always comes.Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: La petit mort by BeavsRating/Warnings: 6th-7th years, character deathSummary: She supposes they were an anti climax.
Angelina/George freeverse.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Daydream Pedlar’s Song by Equinox Chick Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: A Pedlar of Potions is the most welcome of salesmen as Valentine's Day approaches.

Disclaimer: I am not JK Rowling.

Thank you to Julia for running wonderful challenges in Poetry Anyone over at the MNFF beta boards.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Fading Light by pottergirl5Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: George is trying to recover from Fred's death, he really is. But everyone can see he's not doing well, and George begins to wonder if he will ever stop grieving.

Title/Link: Death Came Knocking by minnabirdRating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: Huddled in a cellar, fugitive Muggle-borns wait as Death comes closer...

Nominated for Best Poem in the 2012 Quicksilver Quills AwardsPoints Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Memento Mori by Envy_I_May_Be Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: Death. It is completely inevitable; we will all irrevocably meet our end, someday. Of course, there are those of us who wish to deny it. But they will be proven wrong, one day.
A poem about Voldemort, and the fear he must face, as we all do.Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: Hymn to the Fallen by iLuna17 Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years, character deathSummary: The boy who lived is dead. Voldemort has won. There is no hope for the Wizarding World. Everything is lost; all those who fought died for nothing. People are crying. People are screaming.

But what is going through the minds of Harry's friends as they see his body?Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: How Many Times by iwannabeanauror Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd yearsSummary: After Lily leaves her Defence Against the Dark Arts O.W.L, she writes a poem to the person she thought was her best friend for life.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Left Behind by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/None Summary: Luna broods over the death of her mother, remembering the times they spent by the lemon tree. Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: Silent Ash by Nagini RiddleRating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Mental Disorders Summary: Merope has been left to struggle in the streets, and she lets herself succumb to the vile darkness. Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: A Greying View by Nagini RiddleRating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Mental DisordersSummary: Merope looks to the clouds and sees how they torment her. Written for the Inspiration Station, courtesy of Carole.Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: The Cursed Ruin by Nagini RiddleRating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Mental DisordersSummary: On the night the Dark Lord seeks to kill the Potters, he ends up having to push past some anguish at hearing the baby's cry. But he leads himself to his own ruin...Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Banished Howl by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Abuse, Mental Disorders Summary: The inequalities of the wizarding world run high among the werewolves, causing them to be shunned from society. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Canvas Life by Nagini RiddleRating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years /NoneSummary: A portrait slowly comes to life for the first time. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Death's Horizon by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: In the Tale of Three Brothers, Death magicks a stone to raise the dead. But the second brother finds that he truly cannot have the power to bring back those at peace. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Moonlight by Nagini RiddleRating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: During the full moon, a boy and tree meet for the first time, brought together by fate. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: An Empty Photograph by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: An empty photograph slowly comes to life, a reminder of picking up the pieces and starting over. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Just a Diary by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: Ginny Weasley enters her first year of Hogwarts with one friend - a diary. But is all as it really seems? Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: If No One Will Listen by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: After Harry is picked as the fourth triwizard champion, he feels as though everyone has turned on him. But Hermione hasn't. She listens.. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Lone Sentry by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: During the snowy season a millennium ago, a sculptor arrives to carve out a special guardian. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Foulest Creature by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: Feeding off despair and darkness, these creatures breed. And a dementor is then born. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: When Dreams Become Nightmares by alex13 Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: Even though Harry has had a good life after Hogwarts, he still thinks what if.. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Endless Road by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: Petunia has to leave behind the life she knew at Number 4, Privet Drive. How will she cope?Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Shades of Grey by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/Character DeathSummary: Helena's life takes a new turn after her death as she descends deeper into despair and greyness. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Dark Side by Nagini RiddleRating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: Merope's deception is eating away at her, and runs its fateful course. The title of the poem is borrowed from Kelly Clarkson's song, "Dark Side." b]Points Remaining: [/b]8

Title/Link: The Lament of the Darkest Servant by Envy_I_May_Be Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: Bellatrix gladly does the bidding of her master with a wicked smile and an eager hand... Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Bice Day by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/Character DeathSummary:
Merope is haunted by the various greens of life...

Inspired by hestiajones' story, The Receding, in which Merope hated the color green but was rather fond of rain and the color yellow. Maybe she was secretly a Hufflepuff? Just kidding, Natalie!!!!! Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Life in Technicolor by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/Character DeathSummary: He is trudging forward, heart beating, the truth of it all washing over him- neither can live, while the other survives...

Written for the Magic in Music challenge in the PA. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Prayer to the Master by Envy_I_May_Be Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: Harry reflects on his choice in that pivotal scene from Deathly Hallows, for he, as many, knows that in the end we must all face the master.. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: One Sweet Night by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: In the midst of a dangerous world, James and Lily share one sweet night together.

Written for the Magic in Music challenge in the PA. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Wasted Space by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: What is she? She is a wasted space...

Title/Link: The Coffin Brawl by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/Character DeathSummary: After all of a mother's hard work, her daughter now lays in a coffin and her brothers don't know quite how to cope. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: An Unexpected Turn by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/Character DeathSummary: This is a companion piece to my story, His Last Descendent, though you don't have to read it in order to appreciate this poem.

~Tom Riddle Sr. has an unexpected visitor and an even more unexpected surprise in his life. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Refusal by Nagini RiddleRating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/Character DeathSummary: Helena Ravenclaw reflects on her death and personality.

Written for the Negotiation with Death challenge in the Poetry Anyone? forum. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Sharing Different Heartbeats by opti Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: Life and love go hand in hand, and two people know that more than anybody else in the world. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Celestina's Songbook: Summer Lovin' by minnabird, Equinox Chick, Karaley Dargen, the opaleye, hestiajones, rachelnotrach, The owl, Nagini RiddleRating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Mild Profanity, Sexual SituationsSummary: Slide on in and kick off your shoes. Celestina’s Songbook is back! Here are the hits of the summer season, brought to you by the authors of MNFF.Points Remaining: 8

Alternate Universe

Title/Link: Stormy Skies by voldiegirl Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/ Alternate Universe, Mild Profanity, Sexual Situations Summary: As the granddaughter of Sirius Black and Celeste Lovegood, Nimbus is used to the fame the name brings. However, being the only Ravenclaw in the family and being related to almost every great guy at Hogwarts is more annoying than her twin brothers.

When her abilities as a Seer give her an interesting glimpse at the past, she begins to question everything as she discovers a conspiracy and the history of a certain third-floor corridor, along with a romance that is forbidden in her eyes.

*This is the third part of The Secret Life of Scarlet Black series, but can be read alone.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Lightning Clan Part One: Master of Instinct by HermitKnut Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Abuse, Alternate Universe, Book 7 Disregarded, Character Death, Mild Profanity, SlashSummary: Lord Voldemort is dead. Here’s to a happily ever after. Or not. Life after the war is far more complicated than anyone expected. After a devastating blow to the family so early, the Potters are left reeling - but this is only the beginning. With the death of outright evil, something more subtle has taken its place, and one wizard may not be enough. This time, it takes the whole family.
Sequel to All for All, but you do not need to have read that to understand this.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Sanctimonia Vincent Semper by kneazle_on_a_hot_tin_roof Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/ Abuse, Character Death, Mild Profanity, Sexual Situations, Substance Abuse, Suicide, ViolenceSummary: Growing up as a member of the Malfoy family, Valeria has always struggled to conform in an intimidating environment and to the strictest of demands. Until one fateful day when she finds herself completely cut off. Lost, adrift and facing destitution, she finds help from the unlikeliest of benefactors. The opportunity arises to build a new future for herself, and her life will take an unexpected turn...Points Remaining: 7

Title/Link: The Dark Lord’s Dystopia by TwoWeekTwoMove Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Character DeathSummary: What would happen if Harry Potter had not defeated Lord Voldemort in the Battle of Hogwarts? Aristophanes, cousin of Lucius Malfoy, must deal with dark times and a feisty ginger-headed girl bent on rejoining Harry Potter and the forces he is gathering to wage war upon the corrupted Ministry of Magic and Lord Voldemort himself.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Loannes Potion by crbluvsravenclaw Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/ Alternate Universe, Book 7 Disregarded, Character Death, Violence Summary: There's a desire. All possess it, but one achieves it until death marks its destruction. There's a book. At first sight, it is old and dusty. However, it is selected instead of the other polished replicas. There's a note. The selector discovers it in a random section of the book just weeks later. They decide to study the scribbles on it. There's a problem. As always, there is some sort of dilemma halting the desirable task from its conclusion. There's a result. The solution may be solved at long last or it may be far from it, waiting for years to render its capability.Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: Enigma by Ichthus Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Alternate UniverseSummary: Every man has secrets, and Severus Snape has two he will do anything to protect.Points Remaining: 7

Title/Link: A Recovery In Moments by HermitKnut Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/ Alternate Universe, Book 7 Disregarded, Character Death, Mild ProfanitySummary: Seventh year is over; Voldemort defeated. But the saviour of the Wizarding World is far from the happily ever after he was promised. A set of eight short ficlets, R/Hr and H/G. Mini-sequel to All for All, an AU seventh year fic, so it's DH-disregarded. You do not need to have read All for All to understand this fic.Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: Wolfsbane by Shiloh_Tovah Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/NoneSummary: AU. Professor Snape finds himself in a bit of a predicament when someone from his school days shows up to teach at Hogwarts. Serena Wolfsbane, an accomplished Auror, takes up her new teaching position and discovers that there is definitely more to Snape than meets the eye. Follows basic plot of last 4 Harry Potter books.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Difficulties of Avoidance by chaiteelat Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Alternate UniverseSummary: (AU following OotP) When Ginny stumbles upon a young Tom Riddle passed out in a remote Hogwarts passageway, she resolves to have nothing to do with him. However, as he becomes more entangled in her life, Ginny is drawn into protecting Riddle from himself - if she can first protect herself from him.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Mordern Day Centaur by wanderingtraveler Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/Alternate Universe Summary: Mallory is a young 25-year-old bakery owner who lives alone in the tiny apartment above her shop. Grief stricken that her grandmother has just passed away, she sifts through the boxes she's taken from the old woman's estate and stumbles across an old grimoire. As she turns through the pages, making out this word and that, she accidentally unlocks a magic spell. The creature that visits her in the dreamlike dawn seems like a fantasy. But he's very, very real.Points Remaining: 6

Title/Link: Rescue Me by milkshakebubblebath Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Alternate UniverseSummary: Head Girl Hermione goes back to Hogwarts - without her best friends. Subject to prejudice and ridicule, can she escape her nightmare? Help comes from the least likely of places... Head Boy Draco?Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Vengeance is Beautiful by amadora Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/ Alternate Universe, Character Death, Mild Profanity, Violence Summary: James and Harry are dead; killed by Voldemort. Lily was spared. Grief-stricken, but determined, she sets out to avenge their deaths. Everyone that played a part must suffer: their traitorous secret-keeper, the Dark Lord himself… But what Lily didn’t count on was that her childhood friend - who insists on joining her on her quest - is also partly to blame. Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Lily’s Legacy by iruthb Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/ Abuse, Alternate Universe, Character Death, Mild Profanity, ViolenceSummary: Grace Potter had grown to trust her Head of House at Hogwarts a lot, even when she discovers who her parents were. Then, when Snape kills Dumbledore and her brother becomes the most wanted man in Britain, Grace begins fearing that her misplaced trust will get her killed. Or worse, cause her to betray her only family member and her best friends.Points Remaining: 7

Title/Link: All For All by HermitKnut Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/ Abuse, Alternate Universe, Book 7 Disregarded, Epilogue? What Epilogue?, Mild Profanity, ViolenceSummary: In the fight against He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, Harry will either gain everything — or lose everything. This is life — to gain all, one must first risk all. Alternate sequel to Half-Blood Prince, twelve chapters.Points Remaining: 8

Dark/Angsty Fics

Title/Link: The Countdown to Genesis by Misdemeanor1331Rating/Warnings: Professors/ Character Death, Epilogue? What Epilogue?, Sexual Situations, Strong Profanity, ViolenceSummary: Theodore Nott is a man with an obsession. Hermione Granger is a woman with a vision. One has a secret that could end them both.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Obsession by optiRating/Warnings: Professors/Abuse, Alternate Universe, Character Death, Mental Disorders, Non-Consensual Sex, Sexual Situations, Strong Profanity, Suicide, ViolenceSummary: Obsessions bring out the worst in us, and Draco Malfoy has a deadly obsession that may lead him to the most terrible ends of humanity.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Guilt and Betrayal by AidaLuthien Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Mild ProfanitySummary: Peter sits alone in the Shrieking Shack and reflects on his decisions and his life.Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: We Happy Few by Alice Mac Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th years/Alternate Universe, Character Death, Epilogue? What Epilogue?, Strong Profanity + ViolenceSummary: "Neither can live while the other survives."
She often thought on that - ever since she heard it in Harry's hushed tones. Maybe before that even. Not in the exact sense, of course - she would not claim the powers of a Seer (Merlin forbid). But something close to it, maybe - a strange, half-formed thought; ethereal and not quite tangible.
She sometimes tried to think about what it meant - she spent many hours puzzling over it, in fact. She always was one to think of all the possible outcomes. And think she did. And imagined and theorised and wondered and dreamt.
Never once did she imagine this.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Dreams by Theloonyhermione Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th years/mental disorders + violenceSummary: For most people, dreams are happy places. And even when they aren’t happy themselves, when the dreamer awakens, they are happy that the dream isn’t real. However, this is not the case for Neville Longbottom, for he is not just dreaming, but he is remembering things he would rather forget.Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: Rubies by magestic_ginny/Ginny Weasley Potter Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/Abuse, Character Death, Mild Profanity, Sexual Situations, Violence Summary: There was bitterness, grief and betrayal. Peace, trust and calm. But now love, lust, blood and anger come together for yet another tale.

Red.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Sunlight, At Last by opti Rating/Warnings: 1-2nd Years/Mild Profanity + Suicide Summary: Sometimes the promise of your life is just not enough. Sometimes the only way to feel something is to end it all. For one man at the brink of both his mind and life, these are his times.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Heart Is Now a Cold, Dead Place by opti Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/Alternate Universe, Character Death + ViolenceSummary: Unfortunately, the time had passed and Harry’s dreams became more important and the picture was forgotten in Ron’s school things until after the Final Battle, and they both knew waiting for this whole Dark Lord thing to be taken care of was the better decision. I mean, it was a huge event, but they had always survived before, why would it be different now…how could it be different?Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Pieces by AidaLuthien Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/Sexual SituationsSummary: Albus Dumbledore tries to deal with the twin blows of losing his sister and his lover.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: His Last Descendant by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/Character DeathSummary: What happens when an enraged teenager goes after the man that ruined his life?Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: A Broken Hallelujah by epiphany212Rating/Warnings: Professors/Sexual Situations + Strong ProfanitySummary: You have always loved the chase. The pursuit of Quaffles and dragons have carried you through decades. But before you discovered your childhood hobby or your career, before you can even remember, you have sought (loved) him.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Shame by Cannae be Kanobi Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Character DeathSummary: Draco reflects on his future directly after the Battle of Hogwarts.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: His Only Master by epiphany212 Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Character Death, Strong Profanity, ViolenceSummary: Haunted by his many failures and by the memory of his friends, Sirius Black comes to Hogwarts to seek the counsel of the only wizard who can help him. Until Justice is done, however, his only master is Truth.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Out of the Woods by Alice Mac Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Self Injury + Suicide Summary: Before: Wife of a strong, powerful man, mother of a bright, beautiful son, lady of the Manor, proud, fulfilled, content, respected.After: Wife of a weary, downtrodden man, mother of a scared, lost boy, slave, ashamed, miserable, afraid, disregarded.
It started with him and damn it all if I'll let him finish it too.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Their Affliction by Alice Mac Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Character DeathSummary: Love - that's what Albus thinks sets us apart. The ability to love and the power that it gives you.
I disagree: I think it's hate. Hate is pure, fierce and unyielding. It courses through you like fire and invests you with its strength. Hate guards you from other people - it protects you. If all you feel is hate, you have nothing to lose. You are untouchable.
Love drains you. It forces you to care about others and their welfare and if they are harmed...well, then it brings grief, anguish and pain that rivals any curse. Love reels you in with its sweetness, comfort and passion and then destroys you with its absence. It is crueller than any curse. It is the Gryffindor affliction.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Sleeping Beauty’s Kiss by armagod679 Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/NoneSummary: As she walks to her end, Mary remembers a different kiss.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Findings by Ascendio Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/ Character Death + Mild ProfanitySummary: It is October 31, 1981. Sirius decides to check on Peter, make sure he's safe.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Everything Happens to Me by AidaLuthien Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/SlashSummary: Albus Dumbledore may have defeated Gellert Grindelwald and saved the wizarding world - but he is still tormented by his own past.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Cold by Ithinkrabis2people Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th Years, Sexual Situations, Slash, Substance Abuse and strong ProfanitySummary: “Was stupid to come here. Didn’t want to see… wasn’t expecting to run into anyone.” He trailed off, now on his feet, his arms wrapped around himself as though he were cold. "

Viktor Krum stops for a drink after the last training session of the season, and runs into someone at the pub who shouldn't be there. A few drinks and some unexpected happenings later, Viktor muses on the damages of war.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: To Kill for Her by h_vic Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/character Death, Sexual Situations, and ViolenceSummary: 'You'd die for her. I see it in the way you look at her. You'd kill for her. You wouldn't do that for me, would you?'

It ought to be a rhetorical question, but for Michael Corner suddenly it isn't.Points Remaining: 3

Title/Link: Mum’s The World by Ginny Weasley Potter Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Character Death + ViolenceSummary: Anurag Krishnan, tall, dark and charming is an impossible young man who is of the opinion that the world revolves around him and his thoughts and that no one ever cares enough for him. There is nothing he can’t question; nothing he can’t doubt and lately, he feels that his parents themselves might have underestimated him somewhere.

However, an unexpected visit to an unknown past changes it all and in a matter of hours, Anurag changes from an immature, brash boy to a more accepting, calmer young man. So what was the secret that changed him? What was this memory of his, which despite being tucked away in the deepest pit of his brain caused him to come out and grow up?Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Set Fire by LittleJM Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Mild Profanity + Sexual SituationsSummary: She had a way of falling for him in every way, including his blatant lies. Ten years later, she may not be able to recognise him, but outward appearances don't always prove a change inside.Points Remaining: 5

Title/Link: Then by Half_BloodPrincess Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/Book 7 Disregarded, Character Death + SuicideSummary: The ending to the trilogy, including the final battle, but why is Pansy on the battlefield?The third in a series of If, So, and Then.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Other Side of the Glass by teh tarik Rating/Warnings: Professors/: Alternate Universe, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Strong Profanity, Substance Abuse, ViolenceSummary: (Fred is dead and I am George. George is gone and I am Fred. Forge George. Dead Fred.)

The twins have been separated. Bereft of each other, George has to come to terms with the reality of life by himself, and for Fred, death is not the end. They just might meet again.
Rated: ProfessorsPoints Remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Youngest Death Eaters: Year III by DestinyMoonStar Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/Abuse, Alternate Universe, Sexual Situations, Strong Profanity, ViolenceSummary: Year 3
A year of hard choices and tough talks:
Destiny learns about the grim reality that is her dad’s past. Then it is a power struggle between Salazar and Severus as the trio takes up Occlumency on Dumbledore’s orders. Drake finally asks Silver to open up to him but can she do so? And, is Silver the only one that is confused about feelings? Drake doesn’t think so. Will Salazar awake to the reality that lies in his heart?
Voldemort’s servant returns to his master and while two have discussed their status, the third must choose. Destiny must decide where she stands in the next war to come. The end of the year comes as a blow. Will the long time allies decide to separate or will they finally become something more?

Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Tick-Tock Theodore Nott by eternalangel Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/Character Death, Mental Disorders, Mild Profanity, Sexual Situations, Strong Profanity, Substance Abuse, ViolenceSummary: It's been six years since the Battle of Hogwarts ended, and the Wizarding world is being plagued with a string of brutal house-elf murders. Auror Theodore Nott is on the case. When the murderer starts targeting witches and wizards, the race is on to stop the killer before the Wizarding world falls into chaos. Tick-tock Theodore Nott.Points Remaining: 4

Title/Link: Polarity by Acacia Carter Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/Mental Disorders, Sexual Situations, Strong Profanity, Slash, and Violence Summary: Draco ought to have expected he'd end up dying facedown in an alley, but nothing could have prepared him for the events or the friendships that would follow.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: We Must Not Sink Beneath Our Anguish, But Battle On by The Last Marauder Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years, Mild Profanity + Character DeathSummary: Think the first time Lupin saw Harry since he was a baby was on that eventful train journey in Prisoner of Azkaban? Well, you're wrong, they met once before, when Harry was very small. And it was this first encounter that helped Lupin realise that we must not sink beneath our anguish, but battle on.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Book one: The Rubicon by Elizabeth_austen Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th, Alternate Universe, Book 7 Disregarded, Character Death, Mild Profanity, ViolenceSummary: They call it the War of Blood, a cataclysm which will decide the fate of all sentient life and of wizardry. The Wizarding World is diseased, but Voldemort is just the canker. The worst elements of wizardry have now gathered, not only Death Eaters and Dementors, but all elements of darkness, because underneath it all, invisible to most but nonetheless present, there is an ancient war raging.

As he departs on the Horcrux Hunt, Harry Potter finds an unexpected ally. After he disappears, the unrest and corruption in the Ministry starts making things difficult for the Order and easier for the Death Eaters, Voldemort has found a new and deadly ally, and in the meantime, an elite group of goblins begin planning their own fight against Voldemort.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Vanishing Point by Nagini Riddle Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th Years, Abuse, Character Death, Dubious Consent, Mental Disorders, Sexual Situations, Suicide Summary: *And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?*

Merope's life is full of painful memories that make her wish to vanish forever. Even when she finally gets what she wants, she lets it slip through her brittle fingers, and she is left to fend for herself and an unborn baby in the bleak, grey world.

Will the fates allow her to die?Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Symbiosis by Misdemeanor1331 Rating/Warnings: Professors/Character Death, Epilogue? What Epilogue?, Sexual Situations, Strong Profanity, ViolenceSummary: Two years ago, the United Kingdom was overrun by parasitic insects, which turned most of the population into mindless Hosts. Those who survived eke out an existence wherever and however they can. Hermione Granger is one such Survivor, and she will do anything to protect the group she leads, including the unthinkable.Points Remaining: 8

Humor Fics

Title/Link: The MacGuffin Hunt by Inverarity Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Mild Profanity, Sexual SituationsSummary: Draco has one key to Helga Hufflepuff's Three Lock Box, and Harry has another. Harry and Pansy both have a brilliant idea, and it doesn't involve teaming up to find the third because that wouldn't be as amusing.Points Remaining: 7

Title/Link: Mary, Mary Quite Contrary Macdonald Teaches Snape the Meaning of Life by SnapeLives Rating/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years, Alternate Universe, Mild ProfanitySummary: Mary Macdonald has certainly "changed" for the weirder. She has a couple of obsessions and trouble remembering things. Will she be able to teach Snape the meaning of life or will she just drive him crazy?Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: MonkeyHouse by Sly Severus Rating/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/Epiloge, What Epilogue?, SlashSummary: Since the war Lucius has been forced to deal with many changes, including some of his son’s more unorthodox choices, but when he comes home to find his family has adopted a new pet he fears his patience just might run out.Points Remaining: 8

Title/Link: Perfection by Proud_Muggleborn Rating/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/NoneSummary: Life used to be a breeze for Felix Longbottom, who considers himself the poster boy for perfection, but then his world is turned upside down when he finds himself the target of a series of misguided murder attempts. Hilarity ensues as poor Felix starts doubting his closest friends and trusting his sworn enemies in order to get to the bottom of the mystery, once and for all.Points Remaining: 8

Historical

Title/Link:The Raven’s Claw by SonorusRatings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Character death, ViolenceSummary: A story of the origins of Hogwarts. 11 chapters.
It is the tenth century. Across the island of Britain great changes are taking place and history is being made. But its wizarding community is mired in division and violence, with little hope of an end. Everywhere, the future seems uncertain.
And amid this, in a glen in the Highlands, a young pregnant woman buries her husband and makes a vow that will change history forever.
Her name is Rowena. They call her the Raven's Claw.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:The Last Time by welshdevondragon Ratings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Sexual SituationsSummary: And just as that celestial body worked its way across the sky, somehow she and Godric had moved closer together, without either really knowing how or why, just as neither were really sure who kissed who first. Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:The Girl Who Loved Tom Riddle by The computer is an enigma Ratings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Character death, Mild profanitySummary: Before he became the Dark Lord, he had been student like any other.
Before it was a sin, it had been a house like any other.
Before it all had ripped her to pieces, she had been a girl like any other.
People change. Sometimes for the worse.
This is the story of Hogwarts when Tom Riddle was there, and how the lure of the Dark Arts led him, and the people he dragged in his wake, to madness.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:What Comes Before Death by goldensnidget92 Ratings/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/Character death, Suicide, ViolenceSummary: Helena Ravenclaw told Harry how she died. What she didn't tell him was the whole story that came before her tragic death.
Love, betrayal and heartbreak coloured the last months of her life; but the Bloody Baron wasn't quite as evil as has been supposed.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:An Act of Love by hestiajones Ratings/Warnings: Professors/Abuse, Character death, Sexual situations, ViolenceSummary: Salazar Slytherin has a dark secret, one that only Helga knows. Will she let him get away? Or will she hunt him down?
This is an adaptation of my drabble for the SBBC Cliche Redemption Challenge: Vampires, as well as an entry for the GH Inaugural Cotillion Challenge.
Disclaimer: I am not J.K.Rowling. No copyright infringements intended bro.Points remaining: 4

Marauder Era

Title/Link: Little Lions by SexY_LydZ Ratings/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/Character death, Sexual situations, Strong profanity, Substance abuse, ViolenceSummary: On a stormy October evening, a letter, a late night trip to the library and a secret conversation lead Lily Evans to discover that there are several mysteries in her life that only she has the capability and the inclination to solve. The first mystery is James Potter – what could turn him from the arrogant, could-care-less boy that she had previously known to someone withdrawn and far away? Then, perhaps more troubling, there is Esther Collins, the fifth year who has vanished without a trace. Furthermore, one of Lily’s best friends, Izza, is seeing a mystery boy and Lily is determined to know who.
Then there is the threat of war, backstabbing friends and NEWT’s. A disinherited and emotionally battered Sirius Black is the source of heartache for his friends, except perhaps Izza, who, with her own terrifying family, might just understand him. Lily’s closest male friend, Remus Lupin, is hiding a dangerous secret from her. Peter’s girlfriend is screwing him over, and the whole time Lily is struggling to stop the people she loves from coming apart at the seams. Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:I Know by GmariamRatings/Warnings: 6th-7th Years/Sexual situations, Slash, Strong profanity, Substance abuseSummary: James returns to the dormitory one night to find Sirius is not happy about his new relationship with Lily Evans. He is shocked to discover the reason his best friend is so upset.Points remaining: 4

One Christmas morning, Sirius Black awoke with an idea that would change the lives of the Marauders forever. He'd be a superstar whose fame would make him untouchable, but he has a few bugs to work out first. Bugs like the reporter Rita Skeeter who refuses to leave before snatching a nonexistent scoop, his best friend who believes a girl will make the band more diverse, and the nagging feeling he won't be able to balance both the band, groupies, and Order of the Phoenix missions and meetings.

In the meantime, he's living the dream. After all, what can you expect from a wizard rock star?Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:The Sound Inside a Shellby Alice in Potterland Ratings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Character death, Mild profanity, Sexual situations, Substance abuseSummary: "Voldemort meant little to us then. It was just a name our frightened parents tossed around. They had grown up during Grindelwald's reign - knew nothing but fear. They were paranoid. To us, fear was tangible only in the moments spent considering another loss to Slytherin on the pitch."

Wedged comfortably between two eras of turmoil, the students of Hogwarts never imagined they'd go down fighting. Life at school was defined by teenage rebellion, tough classes, and nail-bitingly exciting Quidditch games. Grindelwald's defeat was news of the past, but some told of a new dark wizard on the rise by the name of Lord Voldemort...

But for Alice Emerson and Lily Evans, for Potter and Black and the rest of her class, that was simply irrelevant. The outside world stopped at Hogwarts' gates until tragedy in their fifth year brought it violently to the forefront.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link: The Knot by Writ EncoreRatings/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/ViolenceSummary: Sirius Black reveals a secret for a laugh, and it all goes wrong. For anyone who's ever made a stupid mistake and got spoon-fed a dose of guilt.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:Love Beyond Forever by mudbloodproud Ratings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Character death, Mild profanity, ViolenceSummary: The year is 1979 and the Marauders are out of school and working for the Order. One Marauder is about to get married, one is finding life outside school harder than even he expected, one is about to turn traitor and one is about to fall in love.

When Sirius Black flew away from the two Muggle policemen with James Potter on the back of his motorbike, he didn’t know he was about to come face to face with the one person who could change everything.

Abigail Sampson was a shy, unassuming girl when she went to school at Hogwarts. She was friends with Lily Evans, but not the Marauders. She graduated and went to work for the Ministry. What very few people knew was she also went to work for the Order.

What happens when this shy girl finds herself working with one Sirius Black to discover the truth behind his brother’s disappearance? Could this quiet girl hold her own with the legendary Sirius Black?

This story starts immediately after J. K. Rowling’s prequel which she wrote for charity. If you can find a copy to read, I would suggest reading it before reading this story. Of course, you don’t need to read it to understand this story, but you may feel as if you missed something in the beginning of this story.

By the end there will be a slight hint at Alternate Universe. I believe what happens in this story was possible, but it strays a bit from what we know of in canon.

This is the prequel to my story The Unknown Heir. Though both stand on their own.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:A Death in the Family by GDPeg43 Ratings/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: Lily Potter has been confined to her Godric's Hollow home for months now with little contact to the outside world, so it comes as a great surprise to her when she learns of her Muggle mother's death. Lily's strong urge to go to the funeral and say good-bye to her mother would mean putting herself and family in danger in multiple ways - and possibly seeing her estranged sister Petunia.Points remaining: 5

Title/Link:The Marauders and the Rise of Darkness by Theophilos Ratings/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: Remus Lupin, James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew have always looked forward to their first year at Hogwarts, but life at school isn't quite what they expected. Can Remus keep his dark secret safe from his disquietingly observant friends? Can Sirius reject his family's traditions and survive their wrath? Is Peter a competent wizard, and can he prove it to demanding professors? And how will James ever keep his unlikely group of friends together in the face of tattletale girls, scheming Slytherins, and the growing rumours about the rise of a new Dark wizard?Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:Battlefields by Sapphire at Dawn Ratings/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/ViolenceSummary: Christmas 1976. Lily Evans is standing in the shadow of a war that for the first time is affecting her Christmas spirit. A reprieve from the gloom comes in the form of a Muggle boy from her hometown, someone who the war cannot touch and is unaffected by the fear it causes. However, dark times lie ahead, and Lily begins to realise that there are some things she just cannot escape, however hard she tries.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:I’m With You by TheSilverEagle Ratings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years/Mild ProfanitySummary: This is a story about (mostly) the Marauders and their 5th-7th years at Hogwarts. Snape dwells on his withering friendship with Lily, James decides that he is in love, and Sirius gets involved with a new girl, and for the first time finds himself with more on his mind than mischief-making with his friends and Quidditch. And that's only the beginning.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:A Werewolf at Hogwarts by LoonyLupin Ratings/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years/NoneSummary: Our favorite werewolf had the time of his life with the Marauders. But what did it take for him to get entrance into Hogwarts, and what did his friends say when they found out about his "furry little problem"?

Can be read as a sequel to "The First Howl", but it stands on its own, too.Points remaining: 8

Post-Hogwarts

Title/Link:An Appreciation for Still Life by epiphany212Ratings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years / Mild ProfanitySummary: For Dean Thomas, success in art is simply serendipity. Beginner's luck and raw talent have brought him from doodles in Professor Binns' class to his first gallery opening. With the promises of critical acclaim and financial success shining brightly upon his professional horizon, Dean must face the only person who understands completely what this moment means to him.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:Preconceptions by HotravRatings/Warnings: 6th-7th Years / Mild ProfanitySummary: Ginny Weasley is where she used to dream to be someday. She is being hailed as the next great Quidditch player. She is the starting Chaser on the Holyhead Harpies and is playing Seeker for the first Unified United Kingdom Quidditch World Cup team. However, Ginny has discovered that being a 'Quidditch star' has costs. You have no privacy, and people will talk about you, saying things that have little or no foundation in truth.

Ginny is facing a turning point in her life. She will be going up against Viktor Krum and the favored Bulgarians. She also has a long term contract with the Harpies awaiting a signature after the match.

And there's always Harry Potter, the other part of her dream. Can she or does she still want both of them as the main part of her life?Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:A Kiss in Kumasi by epiphany212Ratings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years / Mild Profanity, Sexual SituationsSummary: Susan Bones will do anything, even travel halfway across the world, to destroy the curse which holds her mother in its evil grip. Each moment during her stay in Kumasi, Ghana brings new challenges, from the lack of running water to an extremely flirtatious Ghanaian boy who may or may not have secrets of his own...Points remaining: 4

Title/Link:Together by inspirationsRatings/Warnings: 6th-7th Years / Character Death, Sexual Situations, Slash, Strong ProfanitySummary: The anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts is drawing near; Harry and Ginny's relationship is disintegrating. Emotions are running high: how will they overcome these obstacles?Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:After The War by AidaLuthienRatings/Warnings: 1st-2nd Years / NoneSummary: Draco tries to make sense of the new world order.Points remaining: 5

Title/Link:Overcoming by Kaitlyn SnapeRatings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years / NoneSummary: Ginny is torn apart by Fred's death. He was the only one of her brothers who understood her, and now he is gone. Yet despite this, she knows she must go on. She must continue to live despite this. And to live, she must accept his death, no matter how hard it is.Points remaining: 5

Title/Link:New Beginning by Misdemeanor1331Ratings/Warnings: 6th-7th Years / Book 7 Disregarded, Character Death, Mild Profanity, Sexual Situations, ViolenceSummary: But saving a life? There was power in that. Power enough to redirect a meandering existence and change the course of a war.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link: Grounds for Divorce by Alice MacRatings/Warnings: 6th-7th Years / Sexual Situations, Strong Profanity, Substance Abuse, ViolenceSummary: Some, when sitting as I am now, ponder how they have arrived in this place. They do not recognise themselves, let alone the person sitting opposite them. That isn’t the case with me. There is no mystery; there is no question.

It was me - all me. Well, me and him.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:A Reunion with Death by oboechickRatings/Warnings: 6th/7th Years / Epilogue, What Epilogue? Mental Disorders, Mild Profanity, Self Injury, Sexual Situations, Substance Abuse, SuicideSummary: Without a warning, Harry Potter is killed on the job. And Ginny is left alone to pick up the pieces--but Death affects everyone differently. And Ginny finds that she needs to live, instead of going through the motions of life.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:Tempus Vernum by Acacia CarterRatings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years / Character Death, Mental Disorders, Mild Profanity, Substance AbuseSummary: Neville is a herbologist, not an undercover Auror, and certainly not a pharmacological and criminal mastermind. But somehow he's been swept up in a plot much bigger than he is and he must be both - and he only has until springtime to make good on his promises, one way or another.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:Happy New Year, Darling by Maple_and_PhoenixFeatherRatings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years / Character Death, Mild Profanity, Substance AbuseSummary: For the next hour, I say that for every regret we have from this war, we take a shot. Then, we let them go, and we never mention them again.”

On the eve to the first new year after Voldemort’s death, Oliver Wood finds himself suffocating in emotions he just can’t placePoints remaining: 8

Title/Link:I'm Moving On by Maple_and_PhoenixFeather Ratings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years / Alternate Universe, Character DeathSummary: He had felt his heart break again, felt it shatter into a million pieces. Pieces that could never be put back together, a heart that would never love again.

Pain. Regret. Disappointments in love, the burden of mistake. A shattered heart, and a life given to reprimend that mistake.

It's been nineteen years since it all ended, and all he can think about is his mistakes, how he has gotten here, and the inability to let it go, and to move on completely.Points remaining: 8

Title/Link:Someone Like You by Alice MacRatings/Warnings: 3rd-5th Years / NoneSummary:I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited

But I couldn't stay away - I couldn't fight it

I hoped you'd see my face and that you be reminded

That for me, it isn't over yet
Neville Longbottom is newly married; finally has a job that he's passionate about and, against all the odds, is finally happy.

He hasn't thought about her for months now. But then she comes back to remind him that he was happy once before - a long, long time ago.Points remaining: 8